Mentioned in Podcasts

The 100 most mentioned books on podcasts in 2024

These are the books the most different podcasts talked about in 2024. A book scores one point per show, however many times that show discussed it, so a single superfan cannot push it up the list. The Anxious Generation leads with 22 shows. The 2024 ranking covers 4,867 episodes from 59 podcasts.

Key findings

Other years: 2026 · 2025 · All years

By category: arts · biography · business · family · fiction · health · history · philosophy · politics · science · self-help

Same year, ranked by author or by guest.

Biggest climbers vs 2023

  1. 1

    60places

    Steve Jobs

    Now number 19, was 79

  2. 2

    50places

    Deep Work

    Now number 43, was 93

  3. 3

    46places

    Dopamine Nation

    Now number 22, was 68

  4. 4

    43places

    The Fountainhead

    Now number 54, was 97

  5. 5

    42places

    Moneyball

    Now number 30, was 72

  6. 6

    38places

    Irreversible Damage

    Now number 62, was 100

  7. 7

    33places

    The Lean Startup

    Now number 47, was 80

  8. 8

    32places

    Moby Dick

    Now number 59, was 91

  9. 9

    29places

    Range

    Now number 15, was 44

  10. 10

    28places

    War and Peace

    Now number 26, was 54

More on what podcasts read

How we count

We count shows, not mentions. A book scores one point for each podcast that discussed it during the year, however many episodes or times it came up there. A show that discussed a book in twenty episodes adds one point, the same as a show that discussed it once. Episodes are dated by when they were published, not by when we read them, so an older episode we covered this month still counts toward its own year. Ad reads, self promotion and passing name drops are left out. Because we add podcasts over time, each year is ranked across the shows we covered that year, so totals from different years are not directly comparable. Only books with a full page on this site are ranked. Every number on this page updates when new episodes come in. Full definitions.